To the extent we can agree that climate change is problematic largely because of the change part, makes the Social Security problem and the climate problem broadly similar.
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Social Security is a problem but one that we can solve much more easily.
When you talk about the broader -- it is true that, as I think our budget director has said, that Social Security is not the problem when it comes to our near-term deficits, our annual deficits.
Yet there seems to be little political will to fix the nagging problem of Social Security.
This compounds the actuarial problem that Social Security is facing.
He said, "The Social Security" issue is obscuring the main problem, which is pass the budget.
Clinton and Obama did agree on one thing Tuesday night: that Social Security's financial situation is a problem, not a crisis.
We are for a provision that destitution should not follow unemployment by reason of old age, and to that end we have accepted Social Security as a step toward meeting the problem.
It is the very same problem we face now with Social Security and the other major retirement entitlement programs.
"The problem with tax hikes with Social Security is that's what's always been done, and it hasn't gotten the job done, " Fleischer said.
However, this is not the biggest problem that the public sees with Social Security privatization.
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They do not attempt to deny Social Security's shortfall, arguing only that the problem it presents is far from a crisis.
The big problem we have with entitlements is not Social Security, it's Medicare.
But the greater problem, at least in size, lies with Social Security, where the demographic arithmetic is startling enough to force politicians to take notice.
Central to Mr Bush's short-term problem is what the disappearing surplus means for the social security surplus, the funds set aside for future Social Security, or pension, payments.
The problem is that we have an obligation to keep Social Security sound so the people who are working today and who are going to be retiring and getting benefits many years from now can count on the system.
Part of the problem is the reluctance of Democrats to accept cuts in promised Social Security or Medicare benefits.
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And I think the most important point to understand is that his position is the position held by many, and I would say most, credible economists that Social Security is not a contributor to our short- and medium-term deficit problem.
And the reason, when we talk about Social Security, even though it is not a driver, it is not the problem when we talk about our deficits, it does have long-term solvency issues that can be -- that can be addressed and we can strengthen the program.
Hence, the only problem we have with entitlements is paying back the money that we borrowed from the Social Security and Medicare trust funds.
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The real US deficit problem lies five or more years in the future, when expanding entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare and flat taxes will create a widening gap between Federal revenues and Federal spending.
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Against that backdrop, White House officials and some Republicans are arguing that the best way out of the impasse is to resume the search for a comprehensive deficit-cutting deal that gets to the core of the long-term problem through a rewrite of tax policy and a revamp of entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
The fact that that was all within Social Security is true and we can do Social Security entirely separate or we can do it as part of this, but it is still solving a separate problem.
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